Re: [Vala] Bug with Gtk3 and structs

[Andrew Higginson <at higginson gmail com>]

On 22/10/11 21:45, Luca Bruno wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Abderrahim Kitouni
> <a kitouni gmail com <mailto:a kitouni gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     2011/10/22 Andrew Higginson <at higginson gmail com
>     <mailto:at higginson gmail com>>:
>     > Hi, when I compile this code:
>     > http://pastebin.com/EjdvB6RU
>     >
>     > (Which generates this C code):
>     > http://pastebin.com/ziQrEDQd
>     >
>     > Instead of the code retrieving the struct I put into the GtkListStore,
>     > and printing "The ID", it prints out gibberish like:
>     > X�X
>     >
>     > Why is this happening? Is it a problem with GTK3 or Vala?
>
>     You need to define mystruct2 as MyStruct? (on line 16). I don't know
>     whether valac can do something about this (warn, or do the right thing
>     automatically) but there is probably a bug filed about this.
>
>
> This is a subtle behavior because Vala produces correct code. The fact
> is that gtk wants a double pointer to the struct because it actually
> allocates the struct internally.

Many thanks :)

--
Andrew